Books · Observations · Education

This year's text for the "Total Dictation" will be written by the author Marina Moskvina

This year's text for the "Total Dictation" will be written by the author Marina Moskvina. I am scarcely acquainted with her work, but I remembered a charming story that contained this sentence: "Every Saturday I hoped that Dad would stay at home, that we would

Cinema · Observations · People

Vasily Stalin in His Youth

It must be said that Gela Meskhi, who played the lead in the film "Son of the Father of Nations", bears a certain resemblance to him

Monarchies · Observations · Mores · Humour

Harry reportedly ready to return to royal duties if William apologises to him

More than four years have passed since Harold and Meghan left the royal family. Have you noticed how quiet and peaceful it has become? No grubby sensations, no vulgar scandals and, above all, it turns out that the institution of the British monarchy, with a history of more than a

Faith · Observations

The Worst Thing Is Not to Realise One's Own Ignorance

Saint Jerome

NB! · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris

Is there a better way to celebrate the centenary of Surrealism than an epoch-making exhibition at the Pompidou?

Art · Museums · Observations · Paris

Surrealism exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris shows the contribution of women artists

The "Surrealism" exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris is simply magnificent. The presentation of Surrealism is built around the manuscript of André Breton's "Manifesto of Surrealism", displayed in a round glass case. The exhibition gives a comprehensive account of the diversity of

NB! · Observations · Humour

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

NB! · Cinema · Observations · Mores

I think many would be surprised, having booked a first-class ticket on the Titanic, to find themselves in a cabin like this rather than in a vast, gilded suite such as Rose's in James Cameron's film

Books · Observations · Nature

If bellua is some very large beast, then bestia is any dumb, unreasoning animal, fera a wild beast, and pecus, ǒris any animals kept by humans

Such is Latin

Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations

First stage of Open Storage at the Garage Museum presents Russian art since the 1980s

I went to see the Garage Museum's Open Storage. Ever since I first got to know the museum, I had been waiting for its own collection, so I count this important event in Russian museum life as important for myself as well. Perhaps my expectations of the Open

NB! · Books · Observations · Humour

Mishima out of context

Mishima out of context. Do we agree?

Art · Observations · Science · Society · People

Study of the Wadlow family portrait, a possible lifetime image of Shakespeare

Stephen Wadlow, a 58-year-old window cleaner from Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom), has spent more than ten years trying to prove that he owns the only portrait of Shakespeare painted in his lifetime. Stephen's father, Peter Wadlow, an antiques dealer, bought the portrait at the Great Tew